Simulation of General Relativistic Shock Waves by a Locally Inertial Godunov Method featuring Dynamical Time Dilation January 10 , 2011
Simulation of General Relativistic Shock Waves by a Locally Inertial Godunov Method featuring Dynamical Time Dilation January 10 , 2011
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采用动态时间膨胀的局部惯性 Godunov 方法模拟广义相对论冲击波 2011 年 1 月 10 日
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2011
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B. Temple
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Zeke V ogler;B. Temple
We introduce what we call the locally inertial Godunov method with dynamical time dilation, and demonstrate its convergence on a new one parameter family of spherically symmetric, general relativistic shock wave solutions of the Einstein equations for a perfect fluid. The forward time simulations, presented here, resolve the secondary reflected wave (an incoming shock wave) in the Smoller-Temple shock wave model [10] for an explosion into a static singular isothermal sphere. The backward time solutions indicate black hole formation from a smooth solution via collapse associated with an incoming rarefaction wave. A new feature of the numerical method is that clocks are dynamically dilated in each grid cell to simulate the effects of spacetime curvature. The initial data set is constructed by matching a Friedmann-Robertson-Walker spacetime to a Tolman-Oppenheimer-Volkoff spacetime in Standard Schwarzschild Coordinates at a point of Lipschitz continuity, creating a point of shock wave interaction. As far as we know, this is the first numerical simulation of shock wave interaction in general relativity. Prior work of Groah and Temple justifies meeting the Einstein constraint equations for the initial data only at the weak level of Lipshitz continuity in the metric.